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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Ezra Pound

Wrong

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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Suicide

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

Art

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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Age

Literature

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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Instinct

Sound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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Mistake

Prejudice

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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Value

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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Time

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

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Action

Mind

Wars are made to make debt.

Ezra Pound

Debt

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.